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Puzzle Pirates Done, Walking Plank To Release
Spuggy writes "Ahoy mates! Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates (originally mentioned a few months back on Slashdot Games) now has an official launch date of December 8th, 2003 - it's available in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavors, and has been playable in Beta form for a while now. For those of you who have still not tried the game out, Puzzle Pirates is an interesting marriage of several puzzle games and aspects of a MMORPG; but instead of your typical hack & slash of EverQuest, you perform various single/multiplayer 2D puzzles to power your boat, craft various goods in the game, and even fight your fellow players and a series of NPC Brigand boats who threaten your voyages across the ocean!"
Well that's the point though. People who enjoy traditional MMORPG's are going to continue playing them. I for one enjoy the social aspect of them, but got kinda sick and tired of the hack & slash atmosphere. (Not to mention that I can't play any of those games in Linux, and I as I refuse to pirate software, I'm not going to drop $200 for the copy of Windows I'd need to play it).
For a person like me, Puzzle Pirates is a perfect fit. I get to enjoy various puzzles and the traditional social aspects (well, PP doesn't have the idiot l33t's around) of MMORPG's.
I'm telling ya though, give it a crack; it's marvelously addicting.